Sentence examples for genial characters from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jones clearly took a shine to the rowdy world of the derby, and has populated his play with smart-mouthed but ultimately genial characters.

Hardy says: "By day, often in patterned or spotted foulard, it is usually worn by individualists... On less genial characters, it can have an aggressive air and can arouse some kind of resentment at first meeting of a new acquaintance". He could be right.

Rather, he resembles one of Alfred Hitchcock's genial characters, charming and humorous except for the odd moment when you glimpse the razor-sharp blades whirring behind the smiling eyes.

Playing the more genial character, Mr. Neeson had other concerns.

He was of a genial character in social relations, and made hosts of friends in every quarter.

He is a genial character, who arrives in a beaten-up Peugeot 106.

The assembly elected Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a portly, genial character expected to prove a docile partner for the army.

Veh, a genial character, is one of these managers who can manage dressing rooms well but leave most of the practical decisions on the pitch to their players.

In keeping with his genial character, he never went selfishly in search of goals, though in those war years he was the country's top scorer.

I mean, I quite like him, he seems a rather genial character but I pity him his advisers". Fewer than 40,000 of Zambia's 13 million-strong population are white.

The novel is full of wondrous things — several genial character portraits, funny and exact depictions of West Berlin (bars, hippie communes, radical tyranny, bourgeois bohemianism), beautiful evocations of Chicago ("I could feel Lake Michigan. You could feel all of the Great Lakes and their conspiracies of ice crystals and surface winds").